TechnoBugg’s Weekly Round-up

Welcome everyone to this week’s Weekly Round-up of TechnoBugg. In this series of Weekly Round-up, we will showcase Top 5 trending news of this week as well as 2 mentioned news which is very interesting but can’t make their way to the Top 5 list. This week is trending Windows, HTC, & more. So, let’s have a look at this week’s Top 5 trending news.

1. Windows 10 Update Rolling Out:

Just two days ago, we updated that the tech giant Microsoft will roll out its latest Windows 10 April 2018 update on April, 30 i.e. today. Now the company has started to roll out the update and users can able to download it manually, the wide rollout will start in next month. Having said that, the update was original to be called the “Spring Creators Update” and this is Windows 10 version “1803”. Starting of with the features, the main highlight of this update is ‘Timeline’ feature. This feature replaced the older task view button and shows the background activity of the system as well as syncing many activities to multiple PCs. Apart from this, there are few more features that are very useful, like Nearby Sharing, Quick Bluetooth Sharing, and Faster Update Installation. For detailed coverage on this news ClickHere.

2. Xiaomi Hiked Pricing Of Their Popular Products:

We all know that Xiaomi is one brand which is very aggressive in terms of pricing yet giving best possible quality (not really best, but can’t expect more). There pricing of products, especially smartphones is very aggressive in countries like India. But now seems like things are going to change. This week Xiaomi increased the pricing of two of their most popular and demanding product in India i.e. Redmi Note 5 Pro and Mi TV 4 (55 inch). We all know these two products are highly demanding devices in the country, and this is the reason why Xiaomi needs to hike up the pricing. They are unable to fulfill the demand and that’s why they need to import more Mi TVs and those spare parts which are getting shortage in manufacturing Redmi Note 5 Pro. Another reason here is the depreciation in the Indian currency. For detailed coverage on this news ClickHere.

3. OPPO To Bring Its Sub-brand In India:

In smartphone industry we have seen many companies that are actually sub-brand of another company. Here companies like OnePlus, Vivo, and OPPO are all sub-brand of another companies, actually 1 single company. Now this week OPPO announced their sub-brand going to launch. OPPO and Amazon India together teased a launch of new smartphone under the brand name realme. As Amazon India teased the same, it’s understood that this new smartphone will be exclusively selling through Amazon India. Talking about the brand, OPPO said that it will be targeted to budget and mid-range segment in the online market. Indirectly they are targeting to companies like Xiaomi and Honor. For detailed coverage on this news ClickHere.

4. Vivo X21 UD Now Entering Into Global Market:

Vivo X21 UD

Back in March, the Chinese smartphone OEM Vivo, launched their smartphone Vivo X21 UD. This smartphone has the never seen in-display fingerprint sensor within itself. With the help of Synaptic, they became 1st smartphone OEM to launch a smartphone with this technology. But this smartphone was available only in China, until now. As this week Vivo launched this X21 UD smartphone in Singapore and made this smartphone’s entry in Global market. The specs are exactly same, Snapdragon 660 processor, 6.28 inch Full HD+ display, 6-128GB of storage, Dual Camera Setup, and that revolutionary in-display fingerprint sensor. It indicates that this smartphone will soon launch in other major markets like USA, India, and others. For detailed coverage on this news ClickHere.

5. Idea Cellular To Bring Its Own VoLTE Service In India:

Back in 2016, Jio bought the VoLTE technology in telecom which was well appreciated in terms of call quality. Seeing these companies like Airtel and Vodafone also bought their own VoLTE service in some states of India. Now, this week telecom operator Idea cellular joined the league of VoLTE in India. They announced their VoLTE service for selected states, in which Idea users have 4G handsets will get uninterrupted voice calls in HD quality. The call charges will be same as existing normal call rates, and free on special recharges that have free voice calls. As of now, this service is available for selected phones, like many Honor phones and few Samsung phones. But expect OTA to many latest phones in coming weeks. For detailed coverage on this news ClickHere.